India registered a record jump of 8,909 novel coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 2,07,615 today, while the toll rose to 5,815 with 217 more deaths, the Health Ministry said.
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The BJP has appointed Adesh Kumar Gupta as its Delhi unit chief and tribal leader and former Union Minister Vishnu Deo Sai as its Chhattisgarh state president, the party said in a statement.
Cyclonic storm Nisarga, set to make landfall at Alibaug in Raigad district in the afternoon, hovered over the Arabian Sea around 165 km south-southwest of the coastal town and 215 km south-southwest of Mumbai at dawn, a senior IMD official said today.
An encounter broke out today between militants and security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
From doing yoga routines to listening to music and reading literature to holy books—this is how many doctors and nurses working in the frontline of the war against Covid-19 are coping with the tremendous stress and anxiety that comes with their critical jobs.
The Punjab and Haryana High court has imposed Rs 10,000 as costs on a couple after learning that they did not wear masks during their marriage function.
To prevent unwanted pregnancies, the Bihar government is distributing free condoms to migrant labourers going home after completing 14-day institutional quarantine and those in home quarantine, an official said.
A fire broke out in the slums of southeast Delhi’s Tughlaqabad area in the early hours of today, officials said.
The Centre today opposed and sought dismissal of a petition seeking declaration of funds received by the Prime Ministers Citizens Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation (PM CARES), a public charitable trust created by the government amid the COVID-19 pandemic.